Saturday, August 29, 2009

You!

On this pretty rainy day, I thought it would be fun to learn more about you.

The first thing to make you smile today:

Your favorite thing to do:

Favorite Memory:

Where you want to be right now:

Copy and paste this into the comments and let's share some lovely stories. I'll go first..

The first thing to make you smile today: Moo looking frustrated that he can't eat the fish.

Your favorite thing to do: Waking up super early to walk around my neighborhood and people watch with an ice coffee in one hand and a donut in the other!

Favorite Memory: Watching funny old game shows with my momom.

Where you want to be right now: Some place where I can see green trees and the stars at night. Matty and I spontaneously rented a car today so we're taking a road trip upstate. Green trees and stars, here we come!

Favorite Memory: Playing in the orchard in my grandparents' back garden when I was little.

Where you want to be right now: Sitting on the veranda of a cottage somewhere with a fabulous view, with a cold beer in front of me, and Adam Duritz next to me, playing me a song he's written especially for me.

The dark chocolate covered espresso beans I ate as a desert for my breakfast today!

My most favorite thing to do:

EAT! I love going out to eat with my boyfriend. Too much for my wallet and waist's sake haha. Two of my all time favorite places to go is the Magic Grill in Garwood, NJ and Baby Buddha in NYC.

Favorite Memory:

That's a tough one, it may not be my absolute favorite memory, but my most recent favorite is of last Friday night. It was my 21st birthday and I got to hang out with a lot of really good friends that I haven't seen in a very long time (and good friends that I see frequently), and we went out on the town and had a lot of fun. Couldn't have asked for a better birthday.

Where I want to be right now:

In Astoria, NY, visiting my god mother. This is where I'm going today, but I'm really dreading driving over the GW bridge in stormy weather! I hope there is no traffic. I would love to be able to magically transport places.

The first thing to make you smile today: grumpy sleeping husband's funny hairYour favorite thing to do: dance in my pajamas while getting ready for the dayFavorite Memory: getting a freezing cold first kiss on an elevated subway platform in Brooklyn after realizing in our excitement, we had gotten on a train going in the wrong directionWhere you want to be right now: done with our deadlines

The first thing to make you smile today: a text message from my hubby :)Your favorite thing to do: anything as long as my camera is in my hand :)Favorite Memory: walking into my grandmother's house to be smothered by her hugs and getting to eat her freshly baked cookies :)Where you want to be right now: seaside or watercolor {santa rosa beach} florida

The first thing to make you smile today: I bought a pair of vintage flowered Doc Martens yesterday that I am absolutely in love with, and the second I woke up I remember they were in my closet. I nearly squealed with happiness!

Your favorite thing to do: Spend a day in New York City with my friends. No matter what we do, we have the most incredible fun there.

Favorite Memory: Leaving my camp bunk at two in the morning last summer with about a dozen of my best friends to watch a meteor shower on the baseball field. It was freezing and so dark, but we all just lay down on the field and watched the sky. It was magical.

Where you want to be right now: Exactly where I am - sitting in my bed, next to my open window. I have been away all summer and it feels glorious to be home!

The first thing to make you smile today:to wake up next to him because he does not work today!!Your favorite thing to do:to find butterflies to photographFavorite Memory:(one of many) eating the most delicious apples from grandma's backyardWhere you want to be right now:buying us a ticket to visist our family and friends in Portugal

The first thing to make you smile today: Having my best friend tell me she loves me.

Your favorite thing to do: Go on new adventures with my sisters or friends and take pictures along the way.

Favorite Memory: Being squished into the family car with my parents and seven siblings, on our way to anywhere. I'd sit on my big brother's lap and felt more safety there than any seatbelt will ever be able to give me.

Where you want to be right now: The East Coast. In my old home in Connecticut where I used to be a nanny, laughing with the kids and enjoying those green trees and stars! :)

Have fun today, Katie! I love Upstate New York! Say hello to Connecticut for me!

The first thing to make me smile today: Listening to my newest Imogen Heap song, "Aha!".My favorite thing to do: Be productively busy.Favorite memory: Going on road trips to the west coast with my familia.Where I want to be right now: I want to split in half and go to two places. I miss my friends in The Land of the Rising Sun, and I miss my beau who's strolling the streets of Great Britain.

The first thing to make you smile today: my very happy, very small dog doing her butt-wiggle dance in my face to get me to wake up and make her breakfast.Your favorite thing to do: belly laugh.Favorite Memory: as a child playing with my sister when we were supposed to be sleeping.Where you want to be right now: exactly where I am - with my love and 2 furry babies.

The first thing to make you smile today: the spontaneous photos of Jason Schwartzman. Your favorite thing to do: watching peopleFavorite Memory: Playing with playmobil's with my brother as a child.Where you want to be right now: in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

The first thing to make you smile today:Seeing the lovely and peaceful face of my wife this morning.

Your favorite thing to do:Go anywhere or do anything that involves my wife and snuggling up close... and following that is a rousing game of paintball.

Favorite Memory:Watching my bride-to-be walk towards me down the isle. It still sometimes brings a tear to my eye to remember it. Second favorite is seeing the look on her face as I sang a love song that I wrote for her at our wedding reception. We could have turned off the lights and danced by the glow coming from her intense smile.Where you want to be right now:Out with my wife, spending time with friends... anywhere but sitting at my office working on web development.

Can you notice the theme? I <3 my wife!!!

Love the blog, Katie. Hopefully someday, my wife and I can come to New York and hire you to take some great photos of the two of us together... do you travel at all to do a shoot?

The first thing to make you smile today: How I Met Your Mother, "Slutty Pumpkin"

Your favorite thing to do: Spontaneous adventures with my friends or by myself - in the city, in the province, or internationally!

Favorite Memory: All of last year and the random people I got to spend time with and things I got to do: Visiting party shops across KW, manning a booth at Earthfest with Emma and Kylie, yoga and ditching it with Jasmine, OSLC, everything arts related, staying after school until 8 pm for yearbook, doing 10 hour school days, speaking and winging it (and eventually crying) at school assemblies, etc. So many great memories pack into a short span of time!

Where you want to be right now: Moving into my new housing... I'm ready!

The first thing to make you smile today: Frida, my little dog! She was looking for some food and looked at me with a kinda bashful face!Your favorite thing to do: Singing! :DFavorite Memory: HOLIDAYS! :)Where you want to be right now: ON HOLIDAYS! :)

It's funny you should ask ... I woke up in a terrible mood today, so the first time I smiled is when I forced myself to smile for 60 seconds before I had to go into the other room and deal with my kids. I can't say it fixed my mood for the entire day, but it did help.

The first thing to make you smile today: Listening to my favorite song.Your favorite thing to do: Listen to a good thunderstorm with all the windows open (a rarity in Southern AZ)Favorite Memory: Going shopping with my grandma on Christmas eve. It was always just me and her and I was the only cousin ever allowed to go.Where you want to be right now: The beach or a lake surrounded by Aspen trees

The first thing to make you smile today: Waking up and immediately calling my best friend because we promised whoever woke up first would call the other. Your favorite thing to do: I love to paint and draw. It feels magical to hold a pencil or a paintbrush and to see something beautiful come from it.Favorite Memory: Sitting in art class with my 2 closest friends. Kan who actually shared the class with me and Michi who skipped math to be there. Since then, Michi moved about 2000 miles away and Kan moved back to Japan.Where you want to be right now: In the future. ^^ To when Michi and I will share an apartment here in WA and Kan will come to visit like he promised. <3

The first thing to make you smile today: Coffee coffee coffeeYour favorite thing to do: Blog blog blogFavorite Memory: Oh boy, a lot! Let's go with sleepovers at grandma's house :)Where you want to be right now: Hawaii

The first thing to make you smile today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UE3CNu_rtY , This video made my whole day!Your favorite thing to do: listen to music in my car and sing and dance like nobody is watchingFavorite Memory: Camping with my familyWhere you want to be right now: Anywhere Fun :)

The first thing to make you smile today: a text message from an old friend debating me about top chef contestants Your favorite thing to do: go to concerts with my bestest friendsFavorite Memory: my travel memories, like the first time i went to paris and my wonderfully relaxing hawaii vacation a few years agoWhere you want to be right now: i'd like to be in italy, having an adventure and some delicious pizza

First thing made me smile today: Opening the day to a surprise visitor I like :).

Favorite thing to do: Surf wildly through the endless oceans of the Internet and stumple upon people and places that are just such a gift and such an inspiration and such a beacon of hope and creativity and uniqueness and lightness and just about awesomer than awesome :D :). Close second it watching the movies and likewise discovering masterpieces that ripple through you as well. I loove Serendipity and don't know where I'd be i without it today :D

Favorite Memory: Well, It's not exactly a single memory, but I've had some great good times sitting at campfires at evening and night, talking, singing, the warm summer breeze, people easing up and even me easing up a bit, sitting in nature more or less, being warmed by this great elemental power and just sharing for once sincere words now and then with people I'd have least expected to do so ... There is a certain magic in the air when you're sitting around a fire, I'ts just wonderful :).

Where I wanna be right now: At the ocean, at the sea, at the beach, somewhere where it's still summer, like in Portugal or Spain, somewhere warm and mild and mediaterrian, somewhere where I seem to have all the ocean just to myself to take it all in and enjoy, revelate, relaxe, bathe, swim, just be somehwere totally other than right now and completely change my day to day circumstances for some days ...

The first thing to make you smile today: My father waking me by singing "You are my Sunshine".Your favorite thing to do: Read a good book, then go to dinner with friends, and finally dance the night away.Favorite Memory: When I was told that I have the "chops" to really make it.Where you want to be right now: Getting my nails done, they are lookin' gross!

The first thing to make you smile today: it's moving day!Your favorite thing to do: drive with the windows open, singing at the top of my lungs, and with or without a destination.Favorite Memory: driving across the country with my mother. i moved from washington, d.c., picked up my mom in ohio, kissed daddy on the cheek, and headed for the turnpike.Where you want to be right now: on the farm with my parents, dogs, and goats with a soft serve icecream twist cone in one hand and my other hand busy scratching sylvia's, my st. bernard, head.

The first thing to make you smile today: My honey love kissing me goodbye this morning as he left for work while I got to sleep in...

Your favorite thing to do: Sticking my hands in a big lump of clay!

Favorite Memory: Going on Friday night dates with my mum when I was little. We'd each take five bucks, drive into San Francisco and go 'shopping' at the giant Woolworth's on Market Street. After we'd had a snack at the fountain and bought some new barrettes and nail polish we'd cross the street and climb up and down the escalators at Nordstrom's looking at all the sparkling lights and pretty things we couldn't afford. It was so much fun always!

Where you want to be right now: Right where I am, in my humble and darling home with the sun streaming through the windows, the fan hitting me with the perfect breeze, and listening to blues classics on the radio.

The first thing to make me smile today: Finding two of my girlfriend's tiny socks hidden amongst my clothes while I was hanging them out to dry. It was just so cute to find them there like a little surprise 'Hello!' from her.

Your favorite thing to do:Ride my bike around the city finding new places. Can't wait for uni to be over and the weather to improve so I can do a bit more of this.

Favorite Memory: The day we bought out Daschund, Norton. Best impulse buy ever.

Where you want to be right now: Anywhere Norton is! He's in another state at the moment. I miss him.

The first thing to make you smile today: Taking a shower. I got into NY via plane yesterday and was too jetlagged to take a shower. So being clean was amazing.

Your favorite thing to do: Theatre in any form. I love the way it affects people.

Favorite Memory: The first time I woke up and could smell it was fall. I don't know when that was, though I remember it actually happening in the early 2000s. It's something I look forward to every year. I love waking up and before even opening my eyes feeling and smelling fall in the air.

Where you want to be right now: Two places. At my university (Sarah Lawrence), already moved in, with all my friends, and in Amsterdam with the most wonderful guy I met there. The first one will be achieved in two days, the second one will have to wait until December.

The first thing to make you smile today: coffee at breakfast!Your favorite thing to do: drink a good beer with good friends...or eat a giant ice cream sundae :)Favorite Memory: a drunk jewish santa handing me a present every christmas eve of my lifeWhere you want to be right now: anywhere but living back home with my disfunctional family (i am an unemployed college graduate with no future plans...help!)

The first thing to make you smile today: waking up and remembering...it's my last day of work before i become a full time student again!Your favorite thing to do: get so into a really good book that i forget what time it isFavorite Memory: any Christmas...the smell of cinnamon, bright lights, sparkly ornaments, special dinners...i love it!Where you want to be right now: in my own apartment!

The first thing to make me smile today: Today I took a trip to CT with my family to drop off my little brother at school. We were napping in the backseat and when I woke up, he was leaning on my shoulder. It made me smile because it reminded me of all the road trips we took as kids...he always ended up falling asleep on me. Even though we've both gotten older, some things never change.

Favorite Memory: In 2005, my family and I went back to Peru after 10 years of not seeing our family there. My aunt (mom's oldest sister) and uncle celebrated their anniversary when we were there. I can keep replaying their waltz over and over in my head. Seeing them so happy and in love after so many years makes me feel all bubbly inside.

Where I want to be right now: In CT with my little brother. I never thought his moving out would make me feel so upset. I miss not having my best friend around, even if its been less than 24 hours.

The first thing to make you smile today: heading down the stairs and coming upon my little guys curled up together. they looked up at me and wished me a good morning and then turned back to the teevee.

Your favorite thing to do: Waking up super early (indeed), simply because I love the feeling of having all day laying ahead and not knowing what it will contain. Daydream a bit. Making up stories in my head while reading the newspaper.

Favorite Memory: Playing with my sisters and our pets as a child. Plain happiness.

Where you want to be right now: In my future apartment with my boyfriend decorating and making ourselves a beautiful home.

The first thing to make you smile today: me being late for an appointment, but forgiven by so many people.Your favorite thing to do: listen to music with good friends.Favorite Memory: my dad helping me wear my shorts when i was still a small girl in primary school. he made it fun by asking me to swing my hips while he pulled the shorts up.Where you want to be right now: on the bed sleeping, without a care for the rest of the day.

Favorite Memory:tricky, that one...! (favorite song would have been torture)last summer, with my best fantastic friends, a house in Yeu Island in France, white Martini and smoked tuna at sunset.....everyday...maybe not THE favorite memory, but a damned good one.

Where you want to be right now:on the beach somewhere, at sunset, when everyone is leaving and you put a sweater on. best time. I didn't take ONE day of vacation this summer, I'm moving from Paris to Vancouver in three days, can't wait to get some fresh air !!!!!(i'm not even a beach person, go figure...)

The first thing to make you smile today: Creating a Christmas music playlist in iTunes and clicking play.Your favorite thing to do: Drive around with the top down in my Mustang, blaring music and singing/dancing along.Favorite Memory: Turning my freshman-year dorm room in Aquinas Hall into a dance club with all my friends one night first semester and having all the RA's refer to my room as "Club Aquinas" the rest of the year.Where you want to be right now: I'd love to be downhill skiing right now with all my friends.

The first thing to make you smile today: my boyfriend offering to go out for breakfast and the Sunday papersYour favorite thing to do: cook something delicious like Sunday roast chickenFavorite Memory: my first one - munching on candy jewellery at my third birthday partyWhere you want to be right now: holed up in a cottage in Connemara after a long windy walk with a roaring fire, a good book, a bottle of red wine and my lovely other half

The first thing to make you smile today: realising i had woken up at my own free will at 6:49. It means I have so much day today!Your favorite thing to do:Make my friends little gifts and write lists.Favorite Memory:My whole life is one big favorite memory. From my angsty teen years to when I moved back home to travelling and working.Where you want to be right now: on my back in the ocean watching the clouds go by.

The first thing to make you smile today: My little guy (2 yrs old) grew a vegemite beard while eating his toast this morning :)Your favorite thing to do: Walk on Takapuna beach (NZ)Favorite Memory: The day I found out I was pregnant. I had a blood test and then went to work (at an orphan care centre in Africa) and was so struck by the irony.Where you want to be right now: At that same care centre with my little guy.

The first thing to make you smile today:The weather. It was a sunshiny 70s old fashioned Mayberry day. Oppie would have loved it and so did I!Your favorite thing to do:Wake up in a foreign city and strike out to make new friends and see new sights.Favorite Memory:A week spent in Paris with my girlfriends from elementary school and my most beloved Daughter in Love.Where you want to be right now:In NYC with a ticket to a hot play in my hand.

The first thing to make you smile today: I'm camping right now (Yay for Wi-fi!) and it was probably my mom cooking bacon by the camper.Your favorite thing to do: Chill on the beach with my favorite people.Favorite Memory: I have way to many to list. But, Getting engaged at age 5 is pretty stinking fun =PWhere you want to be right now: Somewhere warm. I'm sitting by a cold pool in a cold campground in my Columbia sweater. Wait, never mind. Im going to the camper for supper of Quinoa and chicken! That is where I want to be =)

First thing to make me smile today: I was grocery shopping with my friend, Elma (does that let you know how old she is) and pulled a "Katie" on her. Saw some sticky notes on a counter with a black sharpie, so I wrote on a heart "I love you, Elma". I put it on the next dairy counter. Burst out laughing when she discovered it.

Your favourite thing to do: sleep in or lounge in bed with a good book

Favourite Memory: Doing the polka with my dear friend, Ernie until I was absolutely dizzy.

Where you want to be right now: At the cabin beside the firepit anticipating a hot day on the beach tomorrow.

The first thing to make you smile today: Waking up next to my bf in his house upstate, listening to crickets and cicadas through the open window, and being happy that I was out of the city on such a gorgeous day...

Your favorite thing to do: Play ping pong!

Favorite Memory: Hampton Beach, NH as a kid and how the starfish and snails in the Atlantic were so magical.

Where you want to be right now: Back upstate with my bf swimming in the creek. I am still not ready to be back in the city even though I love Greenpoint!

The first thing to make you smile today: watching my 15 month son get up in the morning with a big big yawn.

Your favorite thing to do:nibbling on finger food with a decent glass of wine and having good conversation with my hubby every nite.

Favorite Memory:my dad loved to have frequent parties and get togethers at home when i was little. i loved sitting in his lap while the grown ups chatted away or sang a song on the portable (!) karaoke machine.

Where you want to be right now:on a beautiful beach somewhere with the pile of books i`ve been meaning to read.

The first thing to make you smile today:my math test went well. im not in a good mood, but you blog cheered me up! i hope i can be like you, always think positively. :)

My favorite thing to do:experimenting with music (drumming!), making art, but my mom won't always allow me to do it. :(i love to take a stroll around my neighborhood, alone haha its kinda sad to have your only one-sister going abroad to study.everthing i do, i always do it alone.

favorite memory:my last trip to taiwan with 30 new friends!

where you want to be right now : ireland. i always want to go there! fresh air, and cricket sound hahaha, lovely, i want to go away from city's busy life :)

the first thing to make you smile today: waking up in my new home to my wonderful fiance and a cup of caramel truffle coffee!

Favorite thing to do: exploring new places with friendly faces. And eating candy.

Favorite memory: I was walking through Harvard square and the sun had come out and for the first time in months I felt warm. I felt beautiful. I was free. As a smile spread across my face I tilted my head up towards the sky and took off running. I ran through the streets and up through the gates of Harvard. I found a green patch of grass where the golden sun shone down and I lay flat against the earth, my limbs sprawled out in all directions. Lying there, breathless, my face towards the sun, I was perfectly happy. I knew in that moment that life was a gift and that I was going to not only enjoy it, but bask in it.

Where you want to be right now: Somewhere exotic. With a waterfall and a secret swimming hole and green everywhere.

The first thing to make mesmile today: the orange glow from the sun through our curtains (that were, by the way, already dancing in the wind)

My favorite thing to do: in this weather, being outside! spending an entire day out walking around, reading on park benches and sharing drinks with that really cool guy I tend to be with a lot

Favorite Memory: one night, many years ago..driving down a dark road with my now husband, then best friend, listening to a song that we both could tell would always be very important to us. starting then. and it is (passenger seat, death cab for cutie..in case you were wondering :) )

Where you want to be right now: back at school, running to a voice lesson or something equally as fun

The first thing to make you smile today:My friend's baby who walked into my room this morning and left the door wide open while I was standing there in my underwear... trying to figure out how to close the door with the roommates not seeing (we live with our friends and their baby)

Your favorite thing to do:Camp. Cook. Take Photos.

Favorite Memory:Vacations with my family.

Where you want to be right now:NYC to visit some dear friends who are there from South America... haven't seen then in a couple of years...

The first thing to make you smile today:The goofy sound of the alarm. I downloaded hundreds and set it to random... so I never know how I am going to wake up!Your favorite thing to do: Skiing in three feet of powder on a bluebird day...Favorite Memory: Camping with the family, searching for the little dipper.Where you want to be right now: Floating down a river, taking in the intensity of thousands of colors.

The first thing to make you smile today: knowing i have rainbow sherbert ice cream waiting for me at my dad's house

Your favorite thing to do:think of memories that make my heart crinkle of the man i was in love with and of the boy i am in love with now.

Favorite Memory:the first time my boyfriend and i were with my mom and friends and siblings, we sat in the back of our suburban and he smply grabbed my hand and intertwined our fingers. it was always something i dreamed and yearned for for someone to do that.

The first thing to make you smile today: My snuggly litte Pug WrigleyYour favorite thing to do: Boating on the lake with friendsFavorite Memory: My Mom and Aunt taking me and my friends to the Paula Abdul concert and then getting to stay in hotel! Where you want to be right now: On the beach or at my non-existant lake house crafting and sipping on a coffee

Favorite Memory: In my Drama class we did an emotional exercise that ended up with most of the class bursting into tears. Immediately after, we laid on the floor gazing up at the ceiling trying to be silent. After several stifled giggles the entire auditorium was flooded with laughter. I had never felt so free in my life.

Where you want to be right now: Rancho Bernardo High School Performing Arts Center

The first thing to make you smile today: For the first time in 17 years I don't have to go to school on the first day of september. In Belgium the new schoolyear starts on September 1. My schoolyear starts September 14.

Your favorite thing to do: spot a butterfly between lots of people.

Favorite Memory: hugs I shared with special people.

Where you want to be right now: August 29, 2009: The Big Ask Again in Ostend... had a really good time there.

Favorite Memory: I have to pick just one? One favourite - the first time I met the above mentioned boy who kissed me last night. I was kind of lost and I mustered up the courage to ask him for help. We took a walk to find the right way.

Where you want to be right now: Not at work...at home in my bed with the morning sun pouring in.

The first thing to make you smile today: A Michael Jackson song! Your favorite thing to do: Go into my hometown Oxford and pretend to be a tourist for the day, see my favorite bands and make new friends in the queue, go to a musical, createFavorite Memory:Where you want to be right now: Sunbathing in some hot country.

The first thing to make me smile today: I am own my own after a called of wedding and I realized, "everything is going to be ok."My favorite thing to do: I like textures, so I cut out little 2x2 squares of textures from magazine pages that i think are pretty. Favorite Memory: Finding my cat, Professor, on pay day outside of my bank. Best pay day ever!Where I want to be right now: In my new apartment, moved in.

The first thing to make you smile today: My roommate coming into my room telling me she was making a pot of coffeeYour favorite thing to do: Spending the day in a city (any city) with my best friendsFavorite Memory: My uncle dressing up as the Easter bunny... when the "baby" of the family was 16, hahaWhere you want to be right now: Down the shore enjoying this gorgeous weather!

The first thing to make you smile today: Seeing the spectacular sunrise while waiting for the 7am train, having worked late and gotten up extra early to go back into the office -- such a nice surprise in the midst of all this stress.

Your most favorite thing to do: My best friend's annual cottage weekend -- spend a blissful, yet fleeting 2 days and 2 nights in the beautiful wilderness of Ontario with my very best friends, skinny dipping and sunbathing. Perfect.

Favorite Memory: Randomly deciding to drive to Montreal with three friends one very cold February night and the spending the greatest three days and nights of our lives exploring that beautiful city together.

Where you want to be right now: At home, in bed, with coffee and a great book. I've been working too much :)

So im breaking the rule on this blog and not doing the question thing..But i just came accross your site and I just would like to let you know I love the way you live life. I was having a bad day today really feeling bad for myself just down in the dumps sall day and then seeing your gift and your creativity really inspired me to find happiness in my own life. Thank you.

The first thing to make you smile today: someoneone special surprising me with a very sweet wheatpaste in our honor :)Your favorite thing to do: draw and talk to friendly strangers on the street!Favorite Memory: how could you ever pick a favorite memory? i think my most recent favorite memory is watching a meteor shower on my birthday with a good friend!Where you want to be right now: in brooklyn, where i'm moving on friday!

you are truly an incredibly person, your blog makes me smile every time i read it. i aspire to be like you.

The first thing to make you smile today: i was driving to school and saw a very pink volkswagen van. it was so cute! i immediately wanted it.

Your favorite thing to do: sleep. no, really. i love sleeping. usually because i have such weird, colorful dreams.

Favorite Memory: this one's hard...well, one of my favorite memories was when i had my first sleepover party in the 4th grade. i invited 5 of my closest friends and we watched titanic and gave each other makeovers! haha.

Where you want to be right now: anywhere that's not hot. or near fires...there's a lot of that going on right now in southern california! :P

The first thing to make you smile today: i was driving to school listening to a hamish and andy podcast from their caravan of courage across america - they always make me smile

Your favorite thing to do: curl up in bed with some yummy snacks and a good book

Favorite Memory: but there's so many to choose from! getting my first cat when i was 7 years old definitely stands out - we went on to have 16 wonderful years together

Where you want to be right now: 300 or so kilometres away at my boyfriend's house snuggling with him on the couch

just found your blog today and am already in love! especially appreciate that you take your moggy with you when you travel, i do as well and i get such strange looks! love your photos as well, they are very inspiring :)

The first thing to make you smile today: Waking up to Adam Parker nestling into my shoulder. How wonderful is it to wake up next to someone you love more than anything?

Your favorite thing to do: I love to be somewhere new, with a language i don't understand, and try to communicate. I love to sit in a cafe with a good book, some paper, and nice pen, and some soup. I love to play scrabble and sit around campfires.

Favorite Memory:Israel, Israel, Israel. When I lived there for a short time and the tide was so, so high. I stood in the water up to my thighs and felt the universe.

Where you want to be right now: an open air market. anywhere. Or maybe, right here.

The First thing to make me smile today: My 6 year old-today is "community leader" day for her kindergarten class. They were all asked to dress like a community leader. She chose to dress like an artist-complete with smock, paint brush, and hair piled up on top of her head. She looked like LOVE!

Favorite thing to do: Spend the day outside-working the horses, weeding the garden. Doing hard work that makes me sweat in the open air is bliss.

Favorite Memory: I have pretty good memories-nothing to be sad about... but I don't think my favorite one has happened yet.

The first thing to make you smile today: Thinking about how funny I look in braided pigtails. I decided to wear them anyway.

Your favorite thing to do: Design T-shirts.

Favorite Memory: When I was about 16, I went to Disney World with my family. Trying to save a little money, we stopped at Walgreens and decided to buy regular ponchos instead of $8 ones in the park. When we got out of the car, we saw these dark storm clouds forming overhead. Dad said that we should leave them in the car, that it would go past. Well, it did go past, but not without raining all afternoon. My mom, in an effort to keep us dry, raided the ladies room for trash bags, and we wore trash bags around the park. I was mortified. Later in the evening we signed my dad up for karaoke without him knowing, as a punishment for making us leave behind the perfectly good ponchos. He was surprised and angrily sung "How sweet it is (to be loved by you)" by James Taylor. So funny.

Where you want to be right now: Elgin, IL, where my fiance is. I miss him so much.

the first thing that made me smile today was waking up with the first sun of winter on my face and daydreaming of moving to bundy...

my faveourite thing to do is to dress people up, do thier makeup, make a crazy set and take HEAPS of photos so that when im old ill never forget!!!!my favourite memory...well theres is a lot thankfully hhhmmm probably when i was little my dad put a door in a tree for my sister and i which made i platform and we used to be ninjas with my nextdoorneighbors!!!

id love to be with my friend ash right now because we had a falling out which was my fault and i dont think i can fix it this time

Favorite Memory:The three days we spent at a castle in Sweden, and where my husband asked me to marry him. :)

Where you want to be right now:Out photohunting for a moose! I photograph a lot, and it's a standing "joke" in our local photoclub that I've yet to "shoot" a moose! We have LOTS of them around, but somehow I never see them...

The giggles and smiles of my two-year-old friends. It's so adorable and contagious.

Your favorite thing to do:

Sit at a coffee shop with friends and talk for hours where conversation never breaks and caffeine is devoured by the mug-full.

Favorite Memory:

Watching Jeopardy with my Grandpa and counting correct answers on my fingers. He was always counting on his toes before I made it to my second hand, but it was still fun. I loved hanging out with my Grandpa.

Where you want to be right now:

In Boston. I thought it was beautiful when I went there in the summer but I bet it is ten times as beautiful in the fall. I would love to sit on a blanket in Boston Public Gardens, sip a latte and read for hours.

The first thing to make you smile today: seeing my neighbour's cat get a snowy cap when she walked under a bush this morning!

Your favorite thing to do: imagine all the fun things I'll be doing in 5 years when I've finished school (:

Favorite Memory: there is no way I can just pick one - all the times I've been with my friends just hanging out and talking...

Where you want to be right now: right here... I couldn't choose a better life for myself than the one I already have (:

I love your blog my dear, and I've missed reading it in the few months that I've been living under a rock! I will definitely check it more regularly now - any time I need something to make me smile (:xxxxx